adj
Meaning 1
Alternative letter-case form of Plutonic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
plutonic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pluːˈtɒnɪk/
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General-American: /pluˈtɑnɪk/
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CMU ARPABET: P L UW0 T AA1 N IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Containing plutonium in a higher oxidation state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Synonym of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek, Roman
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Hadean, Plutonic, Plutonian, Tartarean, Acherontic, infernal, hellish, helly, stygian, subtartarean
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Synonym of Plutonian (“of, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cimmerian, tenebrous, dismal, melancholic, blear, caliginous, crepuscular, dark, darksome, darkling, dim, dimpsy, dingy, dull, dusky, fuliginous, gloomy, infernal, leaden, lightless, mirksome, murky, murksome, obscure, shady, somber, sombrous, stygian, sunless, swarthy, tenebrose, twilightish, umbrageous, unilluminated, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust, rather than by volcanoes at the surface of the Earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abyssal, intrusive, Plutonian
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 6
Of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism (“the theory that the rocks of the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, historical
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Plutonian
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: irruptive
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
See Plutonic.
From pluton(ium) + -ic.
From Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonique (modern French plutonique (“of or pertaining to Pluto, the underworld, or the interior of the Earth”)).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: plutònic — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Finnish: plutoninen — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Finnish: syvä- (see syväkivi) — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- French: plutonique — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Galician: plutónico — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- German: plutonisch — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Italian: plutonico — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Norwegian Bokmål: plutonisk — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Portuguese: plutónico — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Portuguese: plutônico — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Romanian: plutonic — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Spanish: plutónico — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
- Turkish: plutonik — of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust
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